Do I have a reason to do my MBA?

The funny thing is that I think the answer to me is substantially clearer at the end of thirty plus years after I exited the hallowed portals of IIM Calcutta at what was then their newly minted campus at Joka. A secondary question that I will also try to answer...

Strange Life!! Part II

Now The Feeling Of Loneliness Makes Us Feel Insecure, We Start Misbehaving, We Start Listening Sad Songs, We Start Blaming GOD, The Question Like “Why Me??” Comes In Mind. No One Can Answer This Question Or The Answers To This Question Does Not Exist?? Is This What We Want?? Is...

Strange Life!! Part I

We Love Those People Who Don’t Care Anyone’s Feelings. And There Are Some People In Our Life And Fall In Love With Us. They Know How Much They Love Us, Care For Us, Pray For Us. But What Is The Strange Part In This Whole Thing?? Is That The Mistake...

A Purpose To Make Change Happen

Flashback! It was around 2 pm. I sat inside a bus, humming a song on my way back home from school. I handed a 5 rupee coin to the ticket collector as he approached me. He instantly flipped the coin into his pocket and prepared to turn away. Just then,...

Why I started the Thread

There hasn’t been an article written about a thread on this forum. So, this is a first. When I started frequenting this website, the first two threads that I truly enjoyed tracking were the “PagalGuy Coolest Avatar” Contest (PGCA) thread, and the Pursuit of Happiness (PoH) thread. I used to...

A Tete-a-tete with my Manager

Snippets of a conversation I had with my “Boss”, a couple of months back. Me: Sir, can I talk to you for a few minutes? Boss: Sure, but who are you? Me (Guess it’s going to take a while): Sir, I belong to your team in the Customer Management division....

-my IT: my Life-

Great founders of the computer and in turn the IT industry would never have thought about the change they are going to bring in the lives of common people and that it is going to be such an EPIC!! Modern day innovations in IT have an ever changing phenomenon of...

Feeling Okay-ish is not Okay!

I was in my third year. Dreams were simple and almost achievable. Parents were enthusiastic. Neighbors more than enthusiastic. Class-mates and friends would spend all their time between coaching institutes and libraries. The common topic of discussion would be Quant sums and Vocabulary words. Everyone wanting to know what the...

NOTA: A choice to Citizenry

Extracting the sincere,true and the fair message from the ballot paper,more precisely the EVM, has been the agenda and the basis for electoral democracy. The not so recent, SC’s order to install “none of the above” option on the EVMs has revamped the Indian Election scenario becoming the true representative...

The Light at the end of the Tunnel!

Exam season is almost nearing its culmination. We know what follows next. The GD-PI-WAT season. Now this is one of the crucial stages for the student as well as the B-school in deciding whether the aspirant is competent enough and whether the B-school is good enough. So its the stage...

The Happiest Moment of My Life – 2

continued from before… Those were the days when recession was at peak and students of even the most premier colleges of India were not getting jobs. My college, even though one of the best colleges, was also facing similar difficulties. In the month of August, L&T; came to our college...

The Happiest Moment of My Life! -1

My happiest moment! Well, it’s going to be interesting to think about it. So, I close my eyes and lots of images, blurred with vague memories, float in-front of my eyes. I open my eyes with disappointment, focus on the happiest moment I ever had and again close my eyes....

BEST MOMENTS OF LIFE

1. To see your parents smile when you are it’s reason. 2. First Crush 3. To fall in Love. 4. To be Loved. 5. To get a phone call that says class is cancelled. 6. Receiving a call/text from your loved one when you are alone. 7. First Job 8....

A Hero we did not Deserve

I was casually skimming through the newspaper today morning, when I came across an opinion piece. It was a eulogy dedicated to Satyendra Dubey, a project director of the NHAI who was murdered this day ten years ago, for trying to put an end to the corruption that was going...

“It will not happen with me: Part 2”

Thank you girls and boys for liking and sharing earlier article, well I have few more tips I would like to share # 0.1 If you are all alone and suddenly you see 3 or 4 ‘awkward’ people coming and if it is dark, just make a gesture with both...

How to ruin your college life sans T.A.N.G.

So what in the world is T.A.N.G. you ask? Well I came up with this droll abbreviation after scraping by in my midterms, it stands for Tobacco, Alcohol, Narcotics and Girls. How had I led myself to such a sorry pass? It dawned upon me that none of the aforementioned...

Yeah ! I knew a few questions… So what??

Prior to CAT Dude 1 (to Dude 2):” Hey I have come across a couple of questions which are being repeated. Wanna try them?” Dude 2: “Sure! Why not .. After all , who knows.” 2 hours after mumbling (Ant….cuboid…..X^2…..y^3…) Dude 2: “Good stuff this is. Hope we get lucky.”...

Yeh Jeena V Kya Jeena Haiii

Jailed Politicians, Pirates, Rupee Bonds, Run-Machine & Word of the year

SC approves amendment to RPA, those in jail can now contest polls ● SC gave a big relief to jailed politicians by approving amendments to Representation of People (Amendment and Validation) Act 2013. ● SC allowed jailed persons to contest elections, as their right to vote is not curtailed when...

World’s First Red Mud Power Plant, World’s Smallest FM Transmitter, Mars, Chit Fund and a Bank for Women

Vedanta commissions World’s first red mud powder plant Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in alumina industry tackling major environmental hazards. Scientists build world’s smallest FM radio transmitter A team of Columbia...